Changed $HA_BIN variable breaks existing Heartbeat setups

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 (with the High Availability and Resilient Storage Add Ons)
  • Resource Agent package : resource-agents-3.9.2-21.el6_4.8
  • heartbeat-3.0.4-1.el6.x86_64

Issue

  • Changed $HA_BIN variable breaks existing Heartbeat Setups
  • Use of %{_libexecdir} rather %{_libdir}.
  • Bug 1028127

Resolution

Workaround
  • Symlink /usr/lib64/heartbeat/heartbeat to /usr/libexec/heartbeat/heartbeat:
# ln -s /usr/lib64/heartbeat/heartbeat /usr/libexec/heartbeat/heartbeat

Root Cause

  • The change that was made in the RHEL resource-agents package was to add multilib support in preparation for full Pacemaker support in RHEL6.4.z and RHEL6.5.
  • The heartbeat package from the EPEL repository was updated to be compatible with resource-agents-3.9.2-21.el6_4.8 and later as of heartbeat-3.0.4-1.el6

Diagnostic Steps

Bugzilla Link : Bug 1028127

The HA_BIN variable is set in /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d/heartbeat/.ocf-directories.

In previous versions of the package, this was set to the following:

: ${HA_BIN:=/usr/lib64/heartbeat}

In resource-agents-3.9.2-21.el6_4.8, HA_BIN is set to the following:

: ${HA_BIN:=/usr/libexec/heartbeat}

Disclaimer : Heartbeat is an EPEL package and therefore not supported by Red Hat

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